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Postgraduate Studies in Security and Criminology
At no other point in history has our world experienced a set of security challenges to the extent it does today. Challenges such as international terrorism and cybercrime rank among the most pressing issues of our time and have a major impact on the lives of millions of people throughout the world. For example, 90% of Australian organisations faced some form of attempted or successful cyber securi...
More Databases and Journal Access for Alumni at the MQ Library
The Macquarie University Library has expanded its suite of databases, journals, ebooks and borrowing rights to alumni. Alumni membership to the Macquarie Library continues to be ‘free for life’ and alumni can now access 42 databases across 20 platforms. These provide alumni with over 19 000, 5 000 ebooks and 7 000 videos. Additionally, alumni can now access over 350,000 other documents,...
Financial Risk and Australasian Commodity Markets Conferences
The Faculty of Business and Economics invites Macquarie alumni to two upcoming conference for finance professionals. Financial Risk Day 2018 – Investment and Risk in a Low Interest Rate Environment Friday 16 March The Centre for Financial Risk in the Faculty of Business and Economics of Macquarie University is hosting the 8th annual Financial Risk Day at the Swissotel Sydney. This on...
The Macquarie University Social Justice Clinic – championing the vulnerable
The Macquarie Law School has a proud tradition of serving the wider community. Through the new Social Justice Clinic, law students partner with public interest legal practices to service pro bono cases. The Macquarie Social Justice Clinic is a platform that allows the clinic to sustainably expand the legal services to those most vulnerable in society. Already, the clinic has assi...
Forget the couch: online therapy works just as well
More than 80,000 people around Australia have accessed anxiety and depression assessment services since 2013 through Macquarie’s revolutionary digital mental health portal, the MindSpot Clinic, which is fully funded by the Australian Government Department of Health. The clinic now also delivers interventions to help people with chronic pain manage their disability and distress. ...
Master of Research – making a difference through research
Have you ever considered that you could make a greater impact in your field through postgraduate research? Master of Research Graduate and PhD candidate, Joshua Pate (M Research 2017) currently works for NSW Health as a Senior Pain Physiotherapist and has chosen this pathway with Macquarie for exactly that reason. “Ultimately, it means I can help more patients than I can practising as ...